Ancient Egyptian were VERY particular how you got buried when you died. They liked to be buried in style...

Pyramids

Pyramids are a key part of most Ancient Egyptian studies. So it may surprise you to find out that many ''established'' facts are actually wrong...

Daft Details

Many of our facts about Ancient Egyptian pyramids come from the Greek Herodotus. He was the world's first historian...and a bit of a fibber. In fact, in ancient times, Herodotus had 2 titles,,,1. The Father of History2. The Father of LiesAlthough many of his facts are correct, when it came to Ancient Egyptian history, he was more like the ''Father of Mistakes''.

The truth is that each pyramid was built by about 25,000 men in about five years(free men, not slaves. The workers even went on strike if their pay(partly radishes and onions) was late! Besides, the pharaoh did not have 100,000 slaves in Egypt. This may have been because there was no such thing as slavery then!). The men were well fed with beef and ale, and they was and bakery and a fish factory in town as well. Doctors were also on hand in order to fix injuries like broken bones or mangled limbs (Apparently the doctors were quite good, because archaeologists have found skeletons of pyramid builders with injuries that obviously healed up. But workers do show signs of arthritis and other aliments). ​Some people theorize that the pyramids were built by 20,00-30,000 men in about 23 years. But we'll argue about the time it took to build in the next section...

Crafty Construction

Many different people have many different theories about how the pyramids were built. Let's take a look...

Egyptologists agree that the material used for making the pyramids was granite, which was covered by limestone. How the Egyptians got the rock is still being argued...